Eero Haapalainen

Eero Haalpalainen (27 October 1880-27 November 1937) was a Finnish Red Guards leader during the Finnish Civil War.

Biography
Eero Haalpalainen was born on 27 October 1880 in Kuopio, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire. The son of a carpenter and a fabric shop worker, he became a trade union activist and served as the first chairman of the Finnish Trade Union Federation from 1907 to 1911, joining the Finnish Red Guards in 1917. After the Finnish Civil War, he fled to the Soviet Union, where he was executed in 1937 during the Great Purge.